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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Technical Report
Building a Place-based Social Licence to Operate
This report sheds light on our shared concerns about farming: costs, caring for the environment, and animal welfare. And highlights the differences: urban consumers are…
Journal Article
Likely controls on dissolved reactive phosphorus concentrations in baseflow of an agricultural stream.
High baseflow phosphorus (P) concentrations increase the likelihood of periphyton blooms. Several physical and chemical factors can control baseflow P concentrations such as hydraulic exchange…
Model
Impacts of grazing on ground cover, soil physical properties and soil loss via surface erosion: A novel geospatial modelling approach
Agricultural expansion and overgrazing are globally recognized as key contributors to accelerated soil degradation and surface erosion, with direct consequences for land productivity, and environmental…
Technical Report
Sediment traps in hill country
The farmers have been involved in riparian fencing and planting but saw a need to try and reduce the sediment load of water channels that…
Technical Report
Mosaics Testing Model
Our modelling indicates that while more mosaic-y landscapes are likely to produce somewhat better outcomes in profitability terms, the differences are likely to be small.…
Technical Report
Enabling a transformation in New Zealand’s bioeconomy
The OECD called for a global transition towards a bioeconomy in 2009, which resulted in a number of nations adopting strategies to develop their bioeconomy.…
Technical Report
Local Grain Economy: Pathways to Transition Framework
Aotearoa has the capacity to supply much more milling wheat to New Zealand eaters, but growing a local grain economy requires fundamental investment or support…
Technical Report
Collective storytelling to improve freshwater ecosystem health through catchment community knowledge sharing
Water, the lifeblood of Aotearoa New Zealand, sustains our identity and wellbeing; nonetheless, freshwater environments (lakes, rivers, wetlands and aquifers) are significantly impacted by humans.…
Technical Report
Kia Whakatōmuri te Haere Whakamua: Reimagining primary production based on traditional models of the past
This research paper identifies and discusses the key differences and commonalites of Pākehā and Māori societal structure, governance and cultural motivation, Western agricultural systems and…
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